Silver halide color light-sensitive material

Abstract

In a multilayered silver halide color light-sensitive sensitive material having a yellow dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, and a cyan dye forming silver halide emulsion layer on a support, at least one type of an acylacetamide-based yellow coupler in which the acyl group in the acylacetamide is represented by formula (I) below and at least one type of a water-insoluble polymer are contained in the yellow dye forming layer, In formula (I), R 1 represents a monovalent group, and Q represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form, together with C, a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring having at least one hereto atom selected from N, S, O, and P in the ring, R 1 is not a hydrogen atom and is not combined with Q to form a ring: ##STR1##

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A multilayered silver halide color light-sensitive material having a yellow dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, and a cyan dye forming silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein at least one type of an acylacetamide-based yellow coupler in which the acyl group in the acylacetamide is represented by formula (I) below and at least one type of a water-insoluble polymer are contained in said yellow dye forming layer: ##STR32## wherein R 1  represents a monovalent group, and Q represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form, together with C, a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring having at least one hetero atom selected from N, S,O, and P in the ring, R 1  is not a hydrogen atom and is not combined with Q to form a ring. 
     
     
       2. A multilayered silver halide color light-sensitive material having a yellow dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, and a cyan dye forming silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein at least one type of an acylacetamide-based yellow coupler in which the acyl group in the acylacetamide is represented by formula (I) below is contained in said yellow dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one type of a water-insoluble polymer is contained in said cyan dye forming silver halide emulsion layer ##STR33## wherein R 1  represents a monovalent group, and Q represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form, together with C, a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring having at least one hetero atom selected from the group consisting of N, S, O, and P in the ring, R 1  is not a hydrogen atom and is not combined with Q to form a ring. 
     
     
       3. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein at least one type of a water-insoluble polymer is contained in said cyan dye forming silver halide emulsion layer. 
     
     
       4. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the water-insoluble polymer is contained in said yellow dye forming layer at a percentage by weight of 20% or more with respect to the acylacetamide-based yellow coupler in which the acyl group in the acylacetamide is represented by formula (I). 
     
     
       5. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the acylacetamide based yellow coupler is represented by Formula (Y): ##STR34## wherein R 1  represents a monovalent substituent except for hydrogen, Q represents a nonmetallic atomic group required to form, together with C, a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring containing at least one hetero atom selected from the group consisting of N, S, O, and P in the ring, R 2  represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, or amino,   R 3  represents a group substitutable on a benzene ring,   X represents a group which can split off upon a coupling reaction with a hydrogen atom or an oxidized form of an aromatic primary amine developing agent,   l represents an integer from 0 to 4 and if l represents a plural number, a plurality of R 3  's may be the same or different.   
     
     
       6. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein R 1  is a hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent. 
     
     
       7. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein R 3  is a halogen atom, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, carbonamido, sulfonamido, carbamoyl, sulfamoyl, alkylsulfonyl, ureido, sulfamoylamino, alkoxycarbonylamino, alkoxysulfonyl, acyloxy, nitro, a heterocyclic group, cyano, acyl, acyloxy, alkylsulfonyloxy, or arylsulfonyloxy. 
     
     
       8. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein: R 1 , R 2 , R 3  or a substituent on the 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon or heterocyclic ring formed with Q and C of formula (Y) each independently is an alkyl group or contains an alkyl group which is a straight-chain, branched, or cyclic alkyl group which may be substituted and may contain an unsaturated bond;   R 1 , R 3  or a substituent on the 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon or heterocyclic ring formed with Q and C of formula (Y) each independently is an aryl group or contains an aryl group which is a monocyclic or condensed-ring aryl group; or,   Q is a heterocyclic group or contains a heterocyclic group, which is a 3- to 5-membered monocyclic or condensed-ring heterocyclic group which contains at least one hetero atom selected from the group consisting of O, N, S, P, Se and Te in its ring and may be substituted.   
     
     
       9. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein R 1  is a halogen atom, a cyano group, or an alkyl or alkoxy group having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30 or an aryl or aryloxy group having a total number of carbon atoms of 6 to 30, each monovalent group of which may be substituted. 
     
     
       10. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein Q represents a non-metallic atom group required to form, together with C, a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring which has a total number of carbon atoms of 3 to 30, said total number of carbon atoms including a substituent which may be present on the ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic group which contains at least one hetero atom selected from the group consisting of N, S, O, and P in the ring, has a total number of carbon atoms of 2 to 30, said total number of carbon atoms including a substituent which may be present on the ring, and the ring that Q forms together with C may contain an unsaturated bond therein. 
     
     
       11. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein R 2  represents a halogen atom, or an alkoxy having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, aryloxy having a total number of carbon atoms of 6 to 30, alkyl having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, or amino having a total number of carbon atoms of 0 to 30, each of which may be substituted. 
     
     
       12. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein R 3  represents a halogen atom, or alkyl having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, aryl having a total number of carbon atoms of 6 to 30, alkoxy having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, alkoxycarbonyl having a total number of carbon atoms of 2 to 30, aryloxycarbonyl having a total number of carbon atoms of 7 to 30, carbonamido having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, sulfonamido having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, carbamoyl having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, sulfamoyl having a total number of carbon atoms of 0 to 30, alkylsulfonyl having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, arylsulfonyl having a total number of carbon atoms of 6 to 30, ureido having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, sulfamoylamino having a total number of carbon atoms of 0 to 30, alkoxycarbonylamino having a total number of carbon atoms of 2 to 30, a heterocyclic group having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, acyl having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, alkylsulfonyloxy having a total number of carbon atoms of 1 to 30, or arylsulfonyloxy having a total number of carbon atoms of 6 to 30, each of which may be substituted. 
     
     
       13. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein l represents an integer of 1 or 2. 
     
     
       14. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein the position of R 3  on a benzene ring is meta or para with respect to a group represented by formula (Y-a): ##STR35## wherein the substituents are as defined above. 
     
     
       15. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein X represents a heterocyclic group which is bonded to a coupling active position by a nitrogen atom or an aryloxy group. 
     
     
       16. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the amount of the acylacetamide-based yellow coupler in the silver halide color light-sensitive material is 0.01 to 5 mmol/m 2 . 
     
     
       17. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the polymer is a vinyl polymer or a polyester-based polymer, in which a repeating unit has a --(C═O)--bond. 
     
     
       18. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the number average molecular weight of the polymer is in the range of 5,000-150,000. 
     
     
       19. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the water-insoluble polymer has a solubility of 3 g or less in 100 g of distilled water (25° C.). 
     
     
       20. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 1, wherein the amount of polymer in the silver halide color light-sensitive material is 0.01 to 2.0 in a weight ratio with respect to a yellow or a cyan coupler present in the light-sensitive layers of the light-sensitive material. 
     
     
       21. The silver halide color light-sensitive material according to claim 5, wherein: R 1 , R 2  or R 3  each independently is an alkyl group or contains an alkyl group which is a straight-chain, branched, or cyclic alkyl group which may be substituted and may contain an unsaturated bond;   R 1  or R 3  each independently is an aryl group or contains an aryl group which is a monocyclic or condensed-ring aryl group; or,   Q is a heterocyclic group or contains a heterocyclic group, wherein the heterocyclic group is a 3- to 5-membered monocyclic or condensed-ring heterocyclic group which contains at least one hetero atom selected from the group consisting of O, N, S, P, Se and Te in its ring and may be substituted.